Mr Blair listed a catalogue of things that would be different and he stressed how important it was that the Welsh Conservatives should not be allowed to lead a 'hotchpotch' coalition after the May election.

Personally, he was an intellectual moralist, and more offending to him than platitudinous pomposity was the morality of those about him, which was a curious hotchpotch of the economic, the metaphysical, the sentimental, and the imitative.